Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Write short note: Consequences of globalization for India.
- UPSC 2000
- Industrialization and Urbanisation in India
Globalisation is not new to India — the subcontinent has traded across the Indian Ocean for two millennia — but after 1991 it became a policy, opening the country to cross-border flows of capital, goods, people, media and ideas. Arjun Appadurai (Modernity at Large, 1996) is the useful guide: these flows are disjunctive, moving at…
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- Capital and goods: an opened market
- People: diaspora, remittances and a stretched kinship
- Media and culture: hybridisation, not homogenisation
- Work: the English-educated service economy
- The backlash: cultural nationalism
- Conclusion
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